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Regardless of the distance between them, they wrote each other letters filled with declarations of love, which were translated by a local boy.

But Josianne's parents wrote Peter a letter, telling him to leave their daughter alone and explaining in no uncertain terms that there could never be anything between a British Protestant and a Catholic girl from the Westhoek.

And so the romance came to an end - until an old photograph was found and Josianne's granddaughter launched a social media hunt for her grandmother's first love.